Residents of Hingham recently received a mailer from Mass Fiscal Alliance regarding representative Meschino’s vote on making Massachusetts a sanctuary state. I won’t state my personal opinion of the mailing, but I will ask that Hingham residents examine who sent the mailer, and who provided a key piece of their ‘factual’ argument.

The Mass Fiscal Alliance is a right wing, ‘nonpartisan', educational tax-exempt organization, that does not release any information on its donors. Paul Craney, its executive director, has worked in Washington DC and New Jersey as a republican political operative.

Their specialty seems to be using the dark money they collect to subtly target Democratic incumbents. The mailer cites a quote about the cost of illegal immigration in Massachusetts from the Federation for American Immigration Reform. The Southern Poverty Law Center has called the FAIR organization a hate group since 2008 because of its virulent and false attacks on non-white immigrants.

I encourage all Hingham residents, regardless of their position on Immigration, to examine the source of this mailing, and to consider that source in staying informed.